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#OpenBookBlogHop – 6th October 2025 by @stevensmithauthor.bsky.social Did you face any hiccups in your publishing this year? How did you navigate that?
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Open Book Blog Hop – 6th October 2025

This week on the Open Book Blog Hop, we discuss publishing issues this year.

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 2h

These things are sent to try us. - #openbookbloghop #obbh #booksky go.shr.lc/47fYZg6 by @richarddee.bsky.social

These things are sent to try us.

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. This week, we're talking about a stumbling block to progress.

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 2h

Pardon our Dust - #OpenBookBlogHop No. 497 - Did you face any hiccups in your publishing this year? How did you navigate that? authorkwilliams.com/2025/10/pard... #obbh #writerlife #booksky

Pardon our Dust - Open Book Blog Hop #497

The last several years have been tough as far as publishing. I welcomed my daughter in 2017, and focused on raising her ever since. Working full time to support our lives leaves precious little time f...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 10h

The #Pathé channel on YouTube always gives! Here’s the first TV Broadcast… #NBC/RCA 1936 — it’s incredible that we can see this whenever we wish! For a long time, these were just archival accessible by few. youtu.be/6iWJ5LObN2o?...

First Television Broadcast NBC/RCA July 7, 1936 Part 1 of 2

YouTube video by History Comes to Life

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason to Indie publish…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Zappa said this in 1989.

THE ENEMY? "IT SHOULD BE CLEAR FROM RECENT EVENTS THAT AMERICA'S ENEMY IS NOT THE COMMUNISTS OVER THERE, BUT THOSE DERANGED RIGHT-WING LUNATICS RIGHT HERE."- FRANK ZAPPA, 1989

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Al GDad1x7 @gdad1x7.bsky.social · 1d

How can you possibly Make America Great Again with people like these? They are excrement.

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 1d

Truth.

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They need to go back.

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Andrew Mercado @guru-merc.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Portland 🫡

The ICE protest isn’t the ‘war zone’ narrative that the president and right-wing media framed it as. I came out here to document the truth, and not to spin a narrative. I hope I was able to do that! I’m sure I’ll be back in the near future 😎

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 1d

In my annual watch of House on Haunted Hill… #filmsky #halloween

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ALT: Vincent Price Arsenic On The Rocks GIF

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 1d

Is she diapered?

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Mozelle Victory @godswrath699.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Miller is a criminal! Arrest him

Stephen Miller LAUGHS OFF Racial Profiling Accusations

YouTube video by Adam Mockler

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

Did I miss this on CBS?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

In 1999, Bill Clinton announced that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads and drilling.

Today, these lands could soon see chainsaws and logging trucks amid a push by Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"

Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 1d

They all need to be arrested and put in prison for 20.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 2d

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AuthorKWilliams @captainmaiel.bsky.social · 1d

An old union busting tactic. Don’t fall for it. Selling your soul is far more costly.

Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 1d

The text of the law is clear. This is totally illegal.

This is another illegitimate attempt by Russ Vought to “traumatize” hardworking civil servants, which seems to be what gets him out of bed in the morning.

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Mary Breen @mb26.bsky.social · 1d

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